Progressive Radio Network

It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown

The Federal Reserve and the architecture of our monetary system use private capital and financial marketeers as primary channels for getting money into our economy, while…
Too Broke for Bankruptcy It’s a grim irony that only the moneyed can afford the protections of bankruptcy. Even as major companies declare bankruptcy to get…
Recent decades of American politicians have sidestepped making serious national plans to invest in the country’s debilitated infrastructure. Now our country needs multiple-trillions to restore,…
Economist Richard Wolff’s new book “The Sickness is the System” lays out the mechanics of why  capitalism inevitably produces systemic inequities and market failures despite significant…
The sudden passing of Kevin Zeese has removed from the stage of social, political and economic activism a powerful voice and a tireless worker. Whether…
So says renowned economist Michael Hudson in the concluding part of our recent interview with him.  Hudson makes no bones about the deadly serious game being…
Killing the Host Michael Hudson’s landmark 2015 book “Killing the Host” exposed how the empires of finance, insurance and real estate captured the global economy…
Rethinking the Fed, Payment Systems and Vaccine Speculation …  After 100+ years, it’s high time we give serious thought to how well our central bank is…
Covid Coverups   The axiom “never waste a good crisis” has been a reliable tool for Wall Street interests over decades. Under cover of various…
Time to Think Hard About Local Community Investment   Amid the devastating economic impacts of Corvid-19, Ellen discusses her observations of an evident “War on…
Will the Fed Help Rescue Main Street?  While that notion sounds improbable to most economic observers, recent actions by the Federal Reserve have opened the…
Building a Real-World Economy   How would it be if we changed our economic priorities to the concerns of the real world rather than the…